Obama has recently announced a switch on his stance on same sex marriage as a response to the comments of Joe Biden on the issue. Obama believes that the issue around the matter of same sex marriage is going to evolve in the next couple of years and that is why he is supporting it. Although this is not the most important issue today in politics, Obama also believes that this will help him win the November elections this year. Many voters still support Obama and will continue to support him throughout the rest of the year but some have started to change their support for Obama and his new policies based on this new decision. (Peter Baker and Dalia Sussman 2012) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/us/politics/poll-sees-obama-gay-marriage-support-motivated-by-politics.html
I think this new change in Obama's direction is a positive choice but still was heavily influenced by politics. This seems to have been a sudden change without much personal reasoning behind it, he just really wants to win the election this year. If this was such an important issue it shouldn't have been so sudden and should have been discussed in greater detail before the announcement. I also believe this issue was going to reach the supreme court anyway and be decided as unconstitutional sooner or later.
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